Cultural Complexes of Latin America

ISBN-13: 9781032510392 / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str.

Opis

Cultural Complexes of Latin America: South and Soul explores the theory and embodied reality that cultural complexes are powerful determinants in the attitudes, behaviour, and emotional life of individuals and groups.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments  Latin America  Introduction  Part 1: Brazil  1. South and the Soul  2. Cordial Racism: Race as a Cultural Complex  3. Non Ducor, Duco, I am not led, I lead  4. São Paulo and the Cultural Complexes of the City: Seeing through Graffiti  5. The Cultural Skin in Latin America  Part 2: Chile  6. At the Far End of the World: Exploring the Chilean Cultural Isolation Complex  Part 3: Colombia  7. In the Shadow of the Virgin Mary  Part 4: Mexico  8. The Right to Exist: Mexico's Spiritual Colonization  9. The Broken Bridge: Exploring the Mythic Core of Mexican Cultural Complexes  Part 5: Uruguay  10. The Official Story of Uruguay: Cultural Complexes Underlying What Was and Was Not Included  Part 6: Venezuela  11. The Gringo Complex  12. Latin America: A Region Split by its Cultural Complexes  13. Venezuela: Cultural Complexes in Contemporary Context  

O autorze

Thomas Singer, MD, is a psychiatrist and Jungian psychoanalyst who trained at Yale Medical School, Dartmouth Medical School, and the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He is the author of many books and articles that include a series of books on cultural complexes that have focused on Australia, Latin America, Europe, the United States, and Far East Asian countries, in addition to another series of books featuring Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche. He serves on the board of ARAS (Archive for Research into Archetypal Symbolism) and has served as co-editor of ARAS Connections for many years.